About the position
Description
This is a Disaster recovery technical architect position in the Disaster Recovery Management team that is managing the Recovery service for our clients, client's IT environment. The role primarily involves design, architect and operate the Disaster Recovery strategy and solutioning for a heterogeneous technology environment which includes IT and OT landscape
This role seeks strong technical and managerial skills with multiple delivery teams to monitor day-to-day operational issues, technical readiness and capabilities of the recovery environment and ability to trigger a failover event, supporting technology required to enable recovery during recovery a drill or a disaster declaration scenario.
Work Experience
- Overall IT professional experience 12-15+ years
- At least 8+ year technology implementation, design and architecture, Infrastructure recovery solutions
- At least 3+ years handling resiliency and disaster recovery for Operational technology (OT) landscape
- Handon experience in DR replication tools such as VMWare SRM, Azure ASR, Zerto, Storage replication, Database native replication techniques such as Oracle Datagard, SQL Always ON etc,
- Ability to conduct large scale disaster recovery tests failing over complete production site to the recovery site and failback
- Design the complete end to end process of disaster recovery and business continuity management.
Responsibilities - Experience in designing Disaster Recovery solutions for Cloud IaaS/PaaS, Azure, O365, Cloud Integration etc
- Should have experience in Design and Implementation in PLC/DCS/SCADA in Industrial Control System environment
- Responsible for developing, maintaining and driving adoption of Infrastructure recovery solution architectures that align with business needs
- Partnering with Global Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure solutions are in line with Firm-wide Strategic Technology Roadmap
- Review, assess and present DR solutions options to Engineering board and IT architecture leaderships
- Identifying gaps in current DR techniques and developing future state application and infrastructure architectures, frameworks, and development standards
- Experience in identification of Technology domain causing incident or issues during a disaster recovery exercise.
- Excellent Understanding of Recovery & Resilience management life cycle.
- Experience in determining the adequate test environment drill & test plan requirements
- Manage the various technology teams to develop drill Test Plans and Test Evaluation Summaries across heterogeneous infrastructure layers
- Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback
- Drill execution co-ordination, incident / issues tracking during drills
- Experience in recovery testing data collection, analysis and reporting with recommendation of alterations to improve recovery performance
- Leadership and Management Reporting and presentation skills
- Manage the team of Disaster Recovery Consultants and customer handling skills
- Well affluent in tools that enable DR replication and automation
- Able to drive customer on a streamlined DR approach for Business-as-Usual sustainability and readiness
- Streamline Disaster Recovery process and operations for customer
- Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customer's Application and Business teams
- Leading multiple technology groups to ensure that the application, integration, infrastructure, and security architectures are designed to meet evolving business requirements on Disaster Recovery align with the organization Technology Roadmap
- Experience in proposing Disaster Recovery as a Service design
- Manage the various technology teams to develop drill Test Plans and Test Evaluation Summaries across heterogeneous infrastructure layers
- Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback
- Drill execution co-ordination, incident / issues tracking during drills
- Experience in recovery testing data collection, analysis and reporting with recommendation of alterations to improve recovery performance
- Well affluent in tools that enable DR replication and automation
- Able to drive customer on a streamlined DR approach for Business as Usual sustainability and readiness
- Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customer's Application and Business teams
- Lead and Coordinate to Plan & Exercising of recovery testing for customer OT Disaster recovery environment
- Should be able to understand Network Architecture, Perdue Model and Network Segmentation etc.
- Ability to perform various kinds of drills ranging from tabletop, component level, component redundancy, backup restore for OT devices.
Skills and Specifications - Ability to analysis current technology landscape and propose future state of Disaster Recovery technology
- Network / Security / Storage / Backup / Database / virtualization Technology related experience.
- Candidate must be comfortable leading in a fast-paced team environment, and possess very good communications skills
- Presentation and mathematical Skills.
- VMware SRM, Azure ASR, Zerto, Storage replication, Database replications, network-security replications
Education & Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
- At least 10+ years of experience in computing or related area with a focus on technology and management.
- Professional certifications such as ABCP/CBCP/ BS25999 would be added advantage.
- Technology certifications such as CCNA, CISSP would be added advantage.
- Technology related Certifications such as Azure, Redhat, Azure , AWS will be an added advantage
Key Words - Disaster Recovery strategy
- Disaster Recovery architect
- Disaster Recovery Manager / Consultant
- Disaster Recovery Design
- Disaster Recovery Tools
Desired Skills:
- VMWare SRM
- Azure ASR
- Zerto
- Storage replication
- Database native
